«In this historical period you have to sell yourself a lot, but in addition to selling your art you often also have to sell your person, I want to do it in the truest way possible. If I have to tell you that I’m currently fucking depressed, I’ll tell you, because this is the thing I can sell you right now, if I have to sell you something I won’t sell you something I’m not.” The ruthless mechanism that regulates discography has never claimed victims among Italian artists more than this year. Ghemon, Sangiovanni, Mr. Rain, La Sad, there are many who have decided to expose themselves to denounce an intimate but common problem for many in music, as in fact there have been many colleagues who have decided to show solidarity towards them. Because anyone at any level of musical showbiz, even the highest, knows that the pressure, the responsibility, are sometimes unbearable to the point of pure mortification: art standing at attention in front of the numbers, the data, the mathematical follow-up . This is a problem that Sethu knows well, he practically wrote about it in an entire very good album: All the colors of the dark. For him, born in Savona in 1997, born Marco De Lauri, the problem arose immediately after his debut at the Sanremo Festival in 2023. The public did not understand the strength of his song well, Lost causes, nor was his dark look particularly effective for a Rai prime time show, so much so that at the end of the event he will close the rankings. But it wasn’t the last place at the Amadeus Festival that discouraged him, as he tells Open: «The thing that made me go crazy was precisely that, I said to myself, if not even an experience like that of Sanremo, something that could only happen in my dreams, made me happy and proud, what could do it? ? There I decided to take back my mental health, I had to stop to take care of myself.” The album that comes out of it, produced together with his partners in crime, the twin brother Jiz, represents an open-hearted confession, without filters, raw and dark and, precisely because it is raw and dark, somehow also comforting and regenerating. Sethu talks about the album and his intimate adventure in the interview for Open. In the meantime, the dates of his are out All the colors of the dark tourstarting from the prestigious MiAmi in Milan last May 24th and traveling around Italy until September 7th, all dates available on his official Instagram profile.
